“In yet another example of how online social communities are impacting our offline world, a social networking website last week announced the breaking of a decidedly real-world record. Without a paint brush in sight, the largest piece of collaborative art has been assembled beneath the art critics noses, using nothing more than the humble computer mouse and the creativity of over 25,000 willing doodler. In the dim and not so distant past, such a feat would have presented huge logistical challenges. The previous world record for the largest number of contributors to a single painting was set in the state of Texas, USA where a steady line of budding artists added their own blob of paint to a canvas during a period spanning 3 years and seven months. The final image, tangible as it was, was essentially nothing more than a giant paint numbers, designed and lorded over by artist Jim Campbell.

Cue the internet revolution, birth of social networking and another artist with grand plans. This time round however the discernibly more left wing project architect, Paul Fisher, is less inclined to get his (or his participant’s) hand’s dirty. In laying out a vast digital canvas and some structured democratic rules, his Million Masterpiece (millionmasterpiece.com) has taken on a life of its own, breaking the record set by Jim Cambell’s monolith and creating something with almost infinite interpretations…..

The potential for this kind of collaborative artwork has been spotted by others. The infinitely layered graffiti wall we know as Drawball (drawball.com), and Markus Weichselbaum’s brilliant global mosaic theBroth (thebroth.com) both explore the concept of mass participation in single artistic projects that become more complex and meaningful over time.”

This article was published already 2007
http://www.articlesbase.com/art-articles/virtual-world-art-breaks-real-world-record-189149.html

Which may be today the largest Canvas in the Web?

“Webcanvas is a large online digital painting project. A large ‘artwork’ that is purportedly the largest collaborative painting in the world. It is free to look at and you have to register (for free) to add your own graffiti to it – because that is essentially what it is – a giant digital graffiti wall.”

“You are given a couple of levels of zoom to get a broader overview of a segment of the wall, but the facility to look at the wall as a whole is not yet possible.”
http://petermcclory.com/2008/06/webcanvas-collaborative-online-painting/

I don’t know if  webcanvas.com is really the largest canvas in the web. Maybe you know a larger. But it is really great :0))).

More interesting online-painting tools you can find here:
http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/graphicsblog/2008/05/online-drawing-tools-free-online-painting-sketching-tools/
http://www.go2web20.net/#tag:paint

I have added here and there a small piece  in this great pictures, which does tell its own stories about us, who have became a part of this collaborative work. This really was fun.

Greetings
Tesira

http://www.grid4us.net

And yes, at first I was a bit in fear :0))). But as I have cooked a meal for the pirates, they have allowed me to have a look at their wonderful ships.

Have you ever thought about, why a ship does swim in a virtual world and why you do sink on the ground of the Oceans? Well in our real world Archimedes has long ago given answers to these questions.

“The most widely known anecdote about Archimedes tells of how he invented a method for determining the volume of an object with an irregular shape. According to Vituvius, a new crown in the shape of a laurel wreath had been made for King Hiero II, and Archimedes was asked to determine whether it was of solid gold, or whether silver had been added by a dishonest goldsmith. Archimedes had to solve the problem without damaging the crown, so he could not melt it down into a regularly shaped body in order to calculate its density.”

“While taking a bath, he noticed that the level of the water in the tub rose as he got in, and realized that this effect could be used to determine the volume of the crown. For practical purposes water is incompressible, so the submerged crown would displace an amount of water equal to its own volume. By dividing the weight of the crown by the volume of water displaced, the density of the crown could be obtained. This density would be lower than that of gold if cheaper and less dense metals had been added. Archimedes then took to the streets naked, so excited by his discovery that he had forgotten to dress, crying ” Eureka!” – “I have found it!”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes

Would Archimedes come into a virtual world, he would find similar physical laws. But here doesn’t act the same powers. Here the physics is implemented in the program. Who knows, maybe it is similar in our real world. We probably never could find it out.

Diabolus Svenska, the creator of this impressive ships has made with me a little tour through the Megasim.  His ship not only looks really great, it also does really float and sail. So an exiting day does end, but sure I will come back and search for the sunken treasure.

Greetings
Tesira